Some people say you should "trust in your gut", while other people argue that analytic thinking is better. Who is right? To answer this question, ClearerThinking founder Spencer Greenberg recently gave a TEDx talk on the role of intuition in decision-making. If you want to find out when you should rely on instinct instead of reflection, check out the instructive video here!
The talk presents a new decision-making framework that can easily be applied to your own life. The FIRE framework explains when we should prioritise intuitive thought processes - “trusting your gut” - over conscious reflection about what to do, and when reflective thinking is superior. The talk also provides advice on how intuition can be used to reinforce our reflective thinking, helping us to generate predictions and relevant information that we can build into robust models of the world. If you’d like to see more of our work on decision-making, check out the Make Better Decisions section of our site. You might be interested in the Decision Advisor, which walks you through a careful process to organize your thoughts on the options available to you. If you’d like to learn about this new decision-making framework, click here to watch the video. You may also like to check our article about the evolution of trust.